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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

The report also highlighted that Chinese groups continue to share malware tools a long-standing hallmark of Chinese cyber espionage with the KEYPLUG backdoor serving as a prime example. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

The report also highlighted that Chinese groups continue to share malware tools a long-standing hallmark of Chinese cyber espionage with the KEYPLUG backdoor serving as a prime example. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Warns of Global Spear-Phishing Threat, While OWASP Releases AI Security Resources

Tenable

Meanwhile, cybercriminals have amplified their use of malware for fake software-update attacks. Several vertical sectors, including government and IT, are being targeted. Also known as APT29, this group is affiliated with Russia’s government. Collectively, they accounted for 77% of the quarter’s malware infections.

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Even North Korea has an antivirus program—but it’s used for spying

The Parallax

Malware and antivirus software usually go together like tacos and pickles. How antivirus software could be used for government espionage. How Spain is waging Internet war on Catalan separatists. Whatever the malware does, “the North Korean regime does not want to alert its users to it,” Lechtik wrote in his report.

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Window Snyder’s new startup Thistle Technologies raises $2.5M seed to secure IoT devices

TechCrunch

The Internet of Things has a security problem. The past decade has seen wave after wave of new internet-connected devices, from sensors through to webcams and smart home tech, often manufactured in bulk but with little — if any — consideration to security. has no federal law governing basic IoT security standards.

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Government Advisories Warn of APT Activity Resulting from Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Tenable

Government agencies publish warnings and guidance for organizations to defend themselves against advanced persistent threat groups. The alert highlights the following sectors as key targets for the APT groups: defense industrial base, healthcare and public health, energy, telecommunications and government facilities. Government.

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Software supply chain security is broader than SolarWinds and Log4J

TechCrunch

SolarWinds and Log4j have made software supply chain security issues a topic of intense interest and scrutiny for businesses and governments alike. Although discovered quickly, the code, if not corrected, would have enabled widespread unauthorized access across large swaths of the internet.

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